RTX 3080 Users Report Crashes to Desktop While Gaming

Raevenlord · Sep 24, 2020

A number of RTX 3080 users have been reporting crashes to desktop while gaming on their newly-acquired Ampere graphics cards. The reports have surged in numerous hardware discussion venues (ComputerBase, LinusTechTips, NVIDIA, Tom's Hardware, Tweakers and Reddit), and appear to be unlinked to any particular RTX 3080 vendor (ZOTAC, MSI, EVGA, and NVIDIA Founders Edition graphics cards are all mentioned).

Apparently, this crash to desktop happens once the RTX 3080's Boost clock exceeds 2.0 GHz. A number of causes could be advanced for these issues: deficient power delivery, GPU temperature failsafes, or even a simple driver-level problem (though that one seems to be the least likely). Nor NVIDIA nor any of its AIB partners have spoken about this issue, and review outlets failed to mention this happening - likely because it never did, at least on samples sent to reviewers. For now, it seems that manually downclocking the graphics card by 50-100 MHz could be a temporary fix for the issue while it's being troubleshooted. An unlucky turn of events for users of NVIDIA's latest and greatest, but surely it's better to face a very slight performance decrease in exchange for system stability.

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tomc100 · Sep 24, 2020

So it begans. There were multiple problems with the RTX 2000 series when that was released too. Best to wait several months for them to iron out all the problems.

Vya Domus · Sep 24, 2020

tomc100 said:
Best to wait several months for them to iron out all the problems.

2080tis still have atypical failure rates.

ratirt · Sep 24, 2020

tomc100 said:
So it begans. There were multiple problems with the RTX 2000 series when that was released too. Best to wait several months for them to iron out all the problems.

or just buy a bitch-ass monstrous PSU and forget about it

SIGSEGV · Sep 24, 2020

deep condolences to all RTX 3080 users.

I felt somewhat these cards were released in hurry. I told ya.

Caring1 · Sep 24, 2020

Memory issues again?

The memory chips used are rated up to 95C, yet reportedly run up to around 120C.

ZoneDymo · Sep 24, 2020

bet its the bots overloading the pc's trying to purchase the card in their systems

delshay · Sep 24, 2020

I would think most reviews tested the card in an open bench, so the problem never turned up. Most if not all end user(s) will fit it in a closed case. I say take the side panel off & see if the problem disappear.

dayne878 · Sep 24, 2020

Well then, I'm thinking maybe the extreme shortage of RTX 3080s at the beginning is actually a good thing for me. I'll stick with my 2080ti until the 20GB version comes out or at least until I hear they've ironed out the bugs in the 3080 (and they're back in stock).

Vya Domus · Sep 24, 2020

Caring1 said:
Memory issues again?

The memory chips used are rated up to 95C, yet reportedly run up to around 120C.

Now that I think about, knowing this, could it be why they included that error correction ?

Bones · Sep 24, 2020

I posted in the other thread and no need to actually repost it (Since I'm too lazy to do that

) but what I said has relevance about whats been discussed in this thread too:

Users are reporting a crash to desktop issues with custom GeForce RTX 3080 models

An increasing number of users are reporting the crash to desktop (CTD) issues with factory-overclocked NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards. The issues were reported on various forums and social media platforms. ComputerBase has provided a quick overview of what users are reporting. At...

www.techpowerup.com

Agree or disagree, there it is.

bug · Sep 24, 2020

Caring1 said:
Memory issues again?

The memory chips used are rated up to 95C, yet reportedly run up to around 120C.

They're not rated for anything, Micron has not disclosed that info for their GDDR6X modules.

Though yes, with GDDR6X being new, it makes for credible suspect.

EarthDog · Sep 24, 2020

Raevenlord said:
likely because it never did, at least on samples sent to reviewers.

Or, you know........... they simply never experienced the issue during testing. Feels like inffered cherry picking samples here?

AsRock · Sep 24, 2020

Maybe Jayz on to some thing with this, as he goes on about the FE having the issue if clocked high enough but kinda gets around it.

Caring1 · Sep 24, 2020

bug said:
They're not rated for anything, Micron has not disclosed that info for their GDDR6X modules.

Though yes, with GDDR6X being new, it makes for credible suspect.

The info, as I have posted previously can easily be found here under data sheets.

MT61K256M32JE-19

www.micron.com

ZoneDymo · Sep 24, 2020

AsRock said:
Maybe Jayz on to some thing with this, as he goes on about the FE having the issue if clocked high enough but kinda gets around it.

Gamers Nexus showed the same, the card not being very overclockable and when you do it, certain titles will crash.

Vayra86 · Sep 24, 2020

The VRAM plot thickens...

lightofhonor · Sep 24, 2020

Sounds like people are stretching their current PSU's. Even if you are below your max wattage, quick spikes in power usage can cause droop.

It's been theorized that a lot of the AMD 5700 crashes were due to the same thing (me included, and a new PSU fixed it), which didn't happen to reviewers since their PC's are maintained and overbuilt. Looks like the newer GPU's are more demanding on the PSU than just flat wattage.

Space Lynx · Sep 24, 2020

October 28th, you will finally know true power!!!! It will be glorious! 7nm EUV will not suck your PSU so hard!

Vayra86 · Sep 24, 2020

Lightofhonor said:
Sounds like people are stretching their current PSU's. Even if you are below your max wattage, quick spikes in power usage can cause droop.

It's been theorized that a lot of the AMD 5700 crashes were due to the same thing (me included, and a new PSU fixed it), which didn't happen to reviewers since their PC's are maintained and overbuilt. Looks like the newer GPU's are more demanding on the PSU than just flat wattage.

Agreed, this sounds plausible too.

Vya Domus · Sep 24, 2020

Lightofhonor said:
Sounds like people are stretching their current PSU's. Even if you are below your max wattage, quick spikes in power usage can cause droop.

It's been theorized that a lot of the AMD 5700 crashes were due to the same thing (me included, and a new PSU fixed it), which didn't happen to reviewers since their PC's are maintained and overbuilt. Looks like the newer GPU's are more demanding on the PSU than just flat wattage.

These GPUs are not the first ones to draw a lot of power. A 5700 uses a lot less power too.

bug · Sep 24, 2020

Caring1 said:
The info, as I have posted previously can easily be found here under data sheets.

MT61K256M32JE-19

www.micron.com

Ah, I thought you were talking about Tjunction. Who reported 120C surface temps?

Caring1 · Sep 24, 2020

bug said:
Who reported 120C surface temps?

That I don't have a link to, it was mentioned in threads here.
I'm not going to go back and read all of them now to find references to it, lol.

bug · Sep 24, 2020

Caring1 said:
That I don't have a link to, it was mentioned in threads here.
I'm not going to go back and read all of them now to find references to it, lol.

Ok, no worries. Too bad TPU only reports the GPU temps (but I get why).

Are you sure you're not talking about this? https://www.techpowerup.com/272420/...19-gbps-gddr6x-memory-and-not-faster-variants

Caring1 · Sep 24, 2020

bug said:
Ok, no worries. Too bad TPU only reports the GPU temps (but I get why).

Are you sure you're not talking about this? https://www.techpowerup.com/272420/...19-gbps-gddr6x-memory-and-not-faster-variants

That's possible, but I thought there were other mentions of the Vram reaching that high a temperature.

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RTX 3080 Users Report Crashes to Desktop While Gaming

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Users are reporting a crash to desktop issues with custom GeForce RTX 3080 models

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